Releasing our fears and not being afraid to go there. Looking to distant horizons doesn’t necessarily mean physically moving from one place to another. It is using what is at our disposal to find how we can best become who we are meant to become. We each have talents, both evident to ourselves and other that serve our purpose. It’s finding the best avenue to express them that will support whatever quality of life we choose to live. It’s finding and following the correct path that takes us there. It not where we are but who we are that matters and staying on your high horse that may be a good thing.
It’s following our innate talents and abilities, as well as our latent memories. It’s having the fear of making choices that we are not sure of before heading out that usually hold us back. It’s reading, writing, adding to our vocabulary, stretching our knowledge that give us comfort that we can achieve our goals we’ve made for ourselves. What the ancients have always known and told us… that we are to know thyself. Our goals change as we change. It can be stumbling over mistakes made by us and others and using them to guide our next step in awareness of our virtue that carries us and the day.
Number 17 of the I Ching
Distant Horizons
Dissatisfaction tells one when it’s time to go. Before leaving, listen and learn and know what bares repeating. Making mistakes leads to new horizons. Begone now!
Come to know greatness. Find virtue in the journey and know misleading directions will lead to paths not to be taken. Come to know the correct path and that common ways lead to simple action. Gaining ground leads to both good and bad both equally important.
Looking to the sky, distant horizons tell the way. Lights and houses ahead signal a time to stop, visit and come to know people along the way. A gathering at a garden gate gets my attention. I stop and listen to a story told by an ancient one.
Others have gathered, I am welcomed and in turn tell stories that I have heard along the way. Back on the road again torn between what is left behind and knowing greatness only lies ahead.
Achievement occurs with finding yourself along the true path of virtue. Looking back from distant horizons the dragons can be seen dancing across the sky.
An original composition and interpretation of the Chinese Classic the I Ching (17 THE CHASE / Lake over Thunder). 2/12/94
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